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... influential class . Then it was that men of high social position and real talent began to devote themselves to the study and practice of the law . In ... influence , hav- ing for a time incurred the ill will of the 4 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES .
... influential class . Then it was that men of high social position and real talent began to devote themselves to the study and practice of the law . In ... influence , hav- ing for a time incurred the ill will of the 4 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES .
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... influence in favor of Roman jurisprudence , banished the study of the common law from the monasteries and universities , introducing in its place the study of the civil law . As the administration of justice was mainly in the hands of ...
... influence in favor of Roman jurisprudence , banished the study of the common law from the monasteries and universities , introducing in its place the study of the civil law . As the administration of justice was mainly in the hands of ...
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... influence , with the exception of Washington and Franklin , were the lawyers , and the number who were of our profes- sion constituted more than one - half of the entire body of those present . Alexander Hamilton , James Madison , Gouv ...
... influence , with the exception of Washington and Franklin , were the lawyers , and the number who were of our profes- sion constituted more than one - half of the entire body of those present . Alexander Hamilton , James Madison , Gouv ...
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... influence above either the executive or legis- lative department , as it possesses the power to nullify the acts of either . To it pertains the right to construe con- stitutions and pass upon the constitutionality of laws . It defines ...
... influence above either the executive or legis- lative department , as it possesses the power to nullify the acts of either . To it pertains the right to construe con- stitutions and pass upon the constitutionality of laws . It defines ...
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... influence of the legal profession has been po- tential . Supreme in the judicial department , it has from the beginning guided the policy of the executive and de- termined the action of the Congress of the United States . So that it may ...
... influence of the legal profession has been po- tential . Supreme in the judicial department , it has from the beginning guided the policy of the executive and de- termined the action of the Congress of the United States . So that it may ...
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Página 81 - ... and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb...
Página 13 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful, and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the Congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Página 27 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Página 77 - The rights of men in governments are their advantages ; and these are often in balances between differences of good ; in compromises sometimes between good and evil, and sometimes, between evil and evil. Political reason is a computing principle; adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, morally and not metaphysically or mathematically, true moral denominations.
Página 87 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul...
Página 24 - If the advocate refuses to defend, from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the Judge ; nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment ; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of, perhaps, a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favor the benevolent principle of English law makes all presumptions, and which commands the very judge to be his counsel.
Página 24 - Lordships, which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind, that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows in the discharge of that office but one person in the world — that client and none other. To save that client by all expedient means, to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself, is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties ; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the...
Página 16 - I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the ENGLISH BAR ; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
Página 29 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Página 77 - These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of nature, refracted from their straight line.